Winner of The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection
Prize 2017. Winner of the Shine/Strong Poetry Award 2017. Several
Deer is the debut collection of a young Northern Irish poet. As
much indebted to Bob Dylan and Lana Del Rey as to Emily Dickinson
and George Herbert, Crothers writes about destruction, consumption,
misogyny, gods, sex, failure, and rock 'n' roll. But he does so
with rhythmic subtlety and verbal craftsmanship, with unmistakable
technical acuity. The poems are acrobatic: homophones, mondegreens,
malapropisms, paraprosdokians, antanaclasis, polyptoton and puns
are juggled with dexterity. Yet, for all their craft, the poems
remain empathic, sincere, abscised from the particular experience
rather than plucked from the common branch, addressing real people,
albeit with the cynic's ironizing compulsion. 'Now send in the
clowns', ends the collection's opening poem - and so they follow:
happy and sad, wise and tragic, a touch melodramatic, wilfully
misunderstood. They console themselves with rhythm, with rhyme, and
with riffs on literary and pop culture new and old, high and low.
Above all, perhaps, it is the air of excited verbal mischief that
endears the ear to Several Deer. Easily sidetracked and keen to be
soundtracked, the collection doesn't take its sadness seriously. It
listens to the hits.
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